Almost 10 Inches of Snow and Wind Chills Below Zero Are Expected in Parts of New York

New York City-area authorities on Thursday urged residents to stay home, ordered highways be shut down and scaled back some mass-transit service as a dangerous snowstorm barreled into the region from the Midwest.

One day into his new job, the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, said the Department of Sanitation was ready for a nor'easter predicted to dump a half a foot or more of snow on the city. The storm was expected to be the first test of the de Blasio's administration, and the city had mobilized about 2,300 sanitation...